Hook for garments, &amp;c.



Dim 657,533. Pat outed Sept." n, moo. J. m. GUILBEBT.

HOOK FOR GABMENTS, 8w.

(Lppliuflon med. Apr. 3, 1895.)

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A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MURRAY GUILBERT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

'HOOK FOR GARMENTS, 8.1.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,533, datedSeptember 11, 1900.

Application filed April 3, 1895. Serial No. 544,283. (No rue-.lei.

To a, whom, it may concern:-

Be it known that I, JOHN MURRAY GUIL- BERT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks forGarments, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to garment-hooks or the hook member of a hook andeye, and particularly to that class having a guard or projectionextending from the shank toward the bill for the purpose of retainingthe eye and preventing accidental disengagement.

It has been found necessary to fasten hooks to garments by stitchespassedaround the side bars of the hook near its bend back of the bill,and in hooks having guard carrying tongues much difficulty has beenexperienced by the end of the guard-carrying tongue pushing forward andwedging into the stitches at the bend of the hook, thus allowing thehook to become displaced from its proper position on the garment. It isalso important that the stitches near the bend of the book should notinclose the end of the tongue, thus interfering with its resiliency orfreedom of movement,and thereby preventing the easy adj ustment of theeye. A further disadvantage in hooks of this class is the liability ofthe end of the guard-carrying tongue to rise above the side bars andallow the eye to become caught thereunder. It has been proposed toextend the guard-carryin g tongue rearwardly between the side bars tothe back of the bill and to provide it at its extremity with a stopabutting at the rear against the back of the bill, and it has also beenproposed to form said stop into an eye adapted for attachment for sewingto the garment. Such constructions are objectionable, asretaining-threads passed through the eye at the end of the tongue willnot hold the hook securely, as an outward strain'will pull the hook upfrom the garment, twisting the tongue out of position and rendering thehook thereafter useless, and in any construction where the end of theguard-carrying tongue is extended back of the bill retaining-threadspassed around side bars of the hook near its behd will also inclose theend of the tongue, thus allowing the guard to push forward and wedgeinto the threads and preventing the tongue from hav ing the requisitefreedom of movement.

It is the object of my invention to provide a garmentrhook of thecharacter described with a guard-carrying tongue so constructed that itwill not become wedged or be inclosed by sidebar-retaining threadslocated at or near the bend of the hook and at'the same time will notrise above the side bars and allow the eye to become caught thereunder.

It is also desirable that the guard-carrying tongue should be soconstructed that it will occupy a minimum amount of space below the sidebars and will not have the effect either of unduly elevating the hookfrom the cloth or forming an objectionable lump or protuberance. Incarrying out my invention I extend the end of the guard-carrying tonguebelow and between the side bars and bend its extremity laterally to oneside under one of the side bars, thus forming on the end of theguard-carrying tongue an angle-piece. It

will be noticed that by providing the guard carrying tongue with thisangle-pieceI am enabled to terminate the tongue, so as to leavesufiiicient space between the end of the tongue and the back of the billfor the passage of threads, by which the bill may be secured to thegarment without said threads inclosing and thus wedging the tongue. Toenable the portion of the angle which extends under the side bar tooccupy a minimum space, it is flattened.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a hookembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3is an inverted plan view. Fig. 4 is an end elevation; and Figs. 5, 6,and 7 are respectively plan, side, and inverted plan views of the hook,showing the flattening of the end of the tongue.

The hook A is composed of a continuous piece of wire bent in the usualmanner into the shank B, turned over bill O and fastening-eyes D, withthe tongue H lying between erally into an angle-piece F under one of theside bars, thus effectively acting as a stop to prevent the end of thetongue from rising above the sidebars and at the same timeleavingsufficient space (see Figs. 3 and 6) for ment withontembr'acingthe end of the'tongue or impeding its freedom of action. To enable thislaterally-bent angle-piece of the tongue to occupy a minimum space underthe side bar, it is flattened, asshown in Figs. 5, 6, and

7. This flattening also has a tendency to widen the angle-piece F andrender it more certain.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is asfollows:

l. -A garment-hook haV-inga guard for the i. bill carried by a tongue Hhaving its ex trernity extended down between the side bars and bent, ata point slightly infront of the side bars toform an angle-piece Fabutting.

from the rear against said side bar in front of the bend of the bill,substantially as and 'for the purposes described. the sewing of the billof the hook to the .gar-

2. A garment-hook having a guard for the bill carried bya tongue Hhaving its extremity extended down between the side bars and bent, ata'point slightly in front of the bend of the bill, laterally under oneof the side bars and flattened to form a lateral flattened angle-piece Fabutting from the rear 1 against said side bar in front of the bend ofth-evbill, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOHN MURRAY GUILBERT.

' If Witnesses: JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

R. H. GRAESER.

